Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD

"David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> On May 26, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> This means that if we want to give users control over which implementation
>> gets selected, we actually need *three* configure switches.  In the
>> attached revision of Matteo's patch, I called them --with-ossp-uuid
>> (the existing switch name), --with-linux-uuid, and --with-bsd-uuid.
>> I'm not necessarily wedded to the latter two names; in particular it seems
>> unfortunate that the right one to use on OS X is --with-linux-uuid.
>> But I think --with-e2fsprogs-uuid is right out, so it's not clear what
>> would be better.

> How about --with-unix-uuid? Or --with-ext2-uuid?

Meh.  "Unix" certainly subsumes BSD, so that doesn't seem like a very
useful distinction.  I guess we could use "ext2" but that would just
confuse most people.

> Which one is the default -- or is there one?

The point here is that we won't make a default choice.
        regards, tom lane